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A 15-year-old boy is among those arrested in connection with Friday’s shooting at a Wisconsin mall that sent eight people to the hospital, police in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa said Sunday. The suspect was arrested Saturday night, Police Chief Barry Weber said at a news conference, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He said that an altercation between two groups at the Mayfair Mall led to the Friday afternoon shooting. Police had been hunting for the gunman since then. Police investigate a shooting at the Mayfair Mall, Friday, Nov. 20, in Wauwatosa, Wis. (Nam Y. Huh/) “We do know...

A 28-year-old Frenchman has been sentenced to six months in jail after he published a Facebook post attempting to organize a ‘Yellow Vest’ blockade of a local petrol refinery, according to local reports. Hedi Martin was arrested in Port-La Nouvelle, southern France on January 3, shortly after publishing the post on Facebook, la Dépêche reports. In his post, Martin called for a ‘Yellow Vest’ blockade of the petrol refinery in the coastal town, urging people to “stand up to the CRS [riot police],” according to WSWS. State prosecutors noted video footage of Martin on his Facebook page at several Yellow...

Authorities say a family friend found the victim in the backyard, on her knees, crying and begging for her life to be spared. When police arrived, they found her room ransacked, cabinets emptied and the victim, an Asian female with mental disabilities, beaten and robbed. “They hit her in the face with a rock, they used rope and also sticks and a potted plant,” Lt. John O’Hanlon explained. Police say the three suspects, described by the victim as black juveniles, ran away with the victim’s purse. Police were eventually able to identify the suspects as 7, 10 and 12-year-old boys....

PHOENIX — President Obama’s re-election campaign is dispatching workers across Arizona’s college campuses and Latino neighborhoods this spring, registering as many new voters as they can in an organized, three-month effort to determine whether they can put this unlikely state into play for Democrats this November. By any measure the obstacles are considerable: Arizona has voted for precisely one Democratic president since Truman was in the White House. Yet Mr. Obama’s aides said in interviews that they thought it was possible they could move the needle of history by winning in 2012 a state that analysts believe is heading Democratic...

CHICAGO -- While Republican presidential rivals continue to brawl over the nomination, President Obama's re-election campaign is aggressively courting one of the constituencies most enthusiastic about the Democratic flagbearer in 2008: swing-state college students and other voters under 30. The outreach events at 12 colleges and universities in 10 states over the next two months won't just entail some Facebook fan pages and the occasional celebrity drop-by. The Greater Together Summit Tour will include in-person policy discussions led by top re-elect brass like campaign manager Jim Messina, adviser David Axelrod, and deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter. Local officials, student leaders,...